Gotham Rising
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18594-4 (ISBN)
Jules Stewart shows how, after the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression, New York rose from the ashes and underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. At the same time, a cultural revolution was underway as the jazz age and the Harlem Renaissance took hold. From the Empire State Building to the Pastrami Sandwich and the Cotton Club, Gotham Rising tells the story of when the city we know today came of age.
Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. He was born in New York and worked there in various guises including a yellow cab driver over the years. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser's Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars (all published by I.B.Tauris); Crimson Snow: Britain's First Disaster in Afghanistan; The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier; Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya and The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda. He lives in London.
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Amor Towles
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2. The Little Flower and Goliath
3. Trouble in the streets
4. ‘I Can’t Figger What Dis City is Comin’ To’
5. All That Jazz
6. Gotham Gets a Facelift
7. The Thing about Skyscrapers
8. Seventy-Seventh Floor, Please
9. Anything You Can Do
10. You’re the Top
11. They All Laughed at Rockefeller Center
12. Village Life
13. Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-18594-9 / 1350185949 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-18594-4 / 9781350185944 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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